Word: seaborne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parish and mending political fences-set boldly out to get the governorship again. He talked an oil millionaire named William C. Feazel into backing him. (After election he sent Feazel to the Senate to fill the late Senator John Overton's unexpired term, made Feazel's attorney, Seaborn L. Digby, chairman of the Conservation Commission, which decides how much oil may be pumped from wells...
Colonel Effingham's Raid (20th Century-Fox), from the novel by Berry Fleming, tells the story of W. Seaborn Effingham (Charles Coburn), a garrulous, fabulous old Southern colonel who descends on a small city in Georgia and, before he has finished, practically turns the place upside down. The picture depends mostly upon the colonel's warlike antics and vocabulary, and upon some mild byplay involving William Eythe and Joan Bennett as newspaper reporters. The local color possibilities were enormous, but the producer and director of this picture evidently didn't think them worth the trouble. Most...
Sailing the same kind of ships, making the same reckonings from the same stars, Author Morison came to understand the problems Columbus solved. Result is a book written with quarter-deck authority and a seaborn, salty spaciousness...